The Suli Muli tribe, with their striking black face paint and headdresses made from moss, feathers and human hair, come from the rugged Enga Province in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands. Their name ...

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Papua New Guinea's community volunteers provide essential services and health promotion, but the absence of financial support ...

Herpetology has long navigated through tangled terrain in Papua New Guinea, where species mislabeling and sparse sampling ...

In the rugged landscapes of Papua New Guinea—where more than 800 languages echo across valleys and coasts—a remarkable ...

May 16 (UPI) --The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health ... samples and in two healthy children in Lae, Morobe Province." The World Health Organization has reported that less than ...

Following Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s May 2025 re-election, Australia is advancing a historic defence treaty with Papua New Guinea. Rooted in shared history and strategic urgency amid ...

Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG ... polio type 1 with 26 cases across nine provinces. The outbreak was brought under control ...

Papua New Guinea shares a border with Indonesia's easternmost Papua province. Health Minister Elias Kapavore has vowed to achieve 100% polio immunisation in the country by the end of this year.

A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease's spread in a country with low vaccination rates, health officials said. Poliovirus, most often spread ...

Papua New Guinea has raised the alarm over a polio ... The 2018 outbreak caused 26 confirmed cases across nine provinces before it was contained a year later as a result of mass vaccination.